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Paperback. Pub Date: 2006 Pages: 749 Publisher: Picador USA It is 1789 and the three young the provincials have come to Paris to make their way. Georges-Jacques Danton. an Ambitious withyoung lawyer is Energetic. Pragmatic Debt- ridden - and hugely but erotically ugly. Maximilien Robespierre. also a lawyer. is slight. diligent. and terrified of violence. His dearest friend. Camille Desmoulins. is a conspirator and pamphleteer of genius. A charming gadfly. erratic and untrustworthy. bisexual and beautiful. Camille is obsessed by one woman and engaged to marry another. her daughter. In the swells of revolution. they each taste the addictive delights of power. and the price that must be paid for it.
Paperback. Pub Date: 2006 Pages: 749 Publisher: Picador USA It is 1789 and the three young the provincials have come to Paris to make their way. Georges-Jacques Danton. an Ambitious withyoung lawyer is Energetic. Pragmatic Debt- ridden - and hugely but erotically ugly. Maximilien Robespierre. also a lawyer. is slight. diligent. and terrified of violence. His dearest friend. Camille Desmoulins. is a conspirator and pamphleteer of genius. A charming gadfly. erratic and untrustworthy. bisexual and beautiful. Camille is obsessed by one woman and engaged to marry another. her daughter. In the swells of revolution. they each taste the addictive delights of power. and the price that must be paid for it.
Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel is the bestselling author of many novels including Wolf Hall, which won the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Bring Up the Bodies, Book Two of...
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